PANews, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Committee, which will provide advice to the Department of Homeland Security on the safe and responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies in critical infrastructure in the United States. The committee, which includes 22 representatives from software and hardware companies, critical infrastructure operators, public officials, the civil rights community, and academia, is tasked with developing recommendations to help critical infrastructure stakeholders such as transportation service providers, pipeline and grid operators, and internet service providers leverage AI technologies more responsibly. The establishment of the Commission is one of the key actions to address the rapid development of AI technology, aiming to ensure the safe and responsible use of AI technology through cross-sectoral cooperation, while protecting the country's critical infrastructure from potential threats.
Initial members of the Committee include:
Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI; Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic; Ed Bastian, Chief Executive Officer, Delta Air Lines Shorts; Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, CEO, Humane Intelligence; Alexandra Reeve Gives, Bruce Harrell, President and CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology, Mayor of Seattle, WA; Chairman of the Technology and Innovation Committee of the Conference of Mayors; Damon Hewitt, Chair and Executive Director, Lawyers Council for Civil Legal Rights; Vicki Hollub, President and Chief Executive Officer, Occidental Petroleum Corporation; Jensen Huang, president and chief executive officer, NVIDIA; Arvind Krishna, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM; Feifei Li, Ph.D., Co-Director, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University; Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland; Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft; Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO, Adobe; Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet; Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Chuck Robbins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco; Chair of the Business Roundtable; Adam Selipsky, CEO, Amazon Web Services; Dr. Lisa Su, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AMD; Nicol Turner Lee, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution; Kathy Warden, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Northrop Grumman; and Maya Wiley, Chair and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.